Thames Hospice – Retail Assistant

Thames Hospice is a local charity that provides expert care for those with life-limiting illnesses through our 17 bed Inpatient Unit, Community Therapy Unit and Hospice at Home service. It costs over £7 million every year to keep our vital services going. We rely on 80% of our costs from charitable donations, including in our shops, which enables us to provide our services free of charge, 365 days a year, to the people who need us.

Details of the Volunteering Opportunity:

This role is located at our shop in Uxbridge or in Gerrards Cross and hours are flexible, however volunteers tend to do a 4 hour shift on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Tasks include: visual merchandising, sorting donations, preparing them for sale, serving customers on the till and the shop floor and promoting the work of Thames Hospice.

Please state on your application which shop you would like to volunteer at.

Skills Required:

Good teamwork

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Good customer service

Additional Benefits:

In house training

Travel costs will be reimbursed

Options in future to complete in-house training in Visual Merchandising, Customer Service etc

Social events

Hours volunteered will be recorded on your HEAR – which goes on your permanent university record

All hours contribute towards your Brunel Volunteers Award, which leads to an invitation to the annual Brunel Volunteers Awards Ceremony in May

Interested? Apply below:

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Name

First name

Last name

Email

Your Brunel Student ID

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Have you come to study at Brunel from outside the EU

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If you are an international student which visa do you hold?

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Tell us about yourself i.e. your interests, what you can bring to the organisation, why you want to volunteer?

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